Cloud Website Hosting Definition

Essentially, the genuine cloud website hosting solution serves various web hosting services such as data storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on individual sets of avant-garde web servers. Each individual service pack produces a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all function as one single server, sharing out the service's load in almost equipollent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a disk space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these different service clusters will render the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The colossal cloud web hosting fraud. Quite common at present.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only seem complicated, but in fact it is intensely perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. Based on this universal unawareness, the "cloud web hosting companies" speculate intensely, just to secure the client and his/her five dollars a month. What a shame! An immense shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no regulations at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-regulative organization. That is why the hosting companies speculate and tell lies overtly (very directly, actually) to their customers. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud hosting they indeed can furnish.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting companies

If a cPanel-based website hosting corporation has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, loads of hosting servers must be ensured. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud problems are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting vendor to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, because of the fact that making one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient team are not a predicament, a lot of money has to be spent as well. Piles of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge drawback.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting environments. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel user interfaces (working with the cloud web hosting system) either. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first of all you must construct one. In-house. Secondly, you have to invent the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Famous web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to work on one web server solely. All web hosting services (storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at one and the same time on a single web server where these respective one-server hosting platforms and website hosting CPs are set up.

The shortage of open source hosting CPs

So, you have to build a custom Control Panel that will perform impeccably and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent part of it. Proper examples of in-house developed cloud web hosting systems with in-house made web hosting CPs besides us, at NortonHost.com, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision expenses

The minimal investment needed, only for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting solutions can be stumbled upon out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and virtually unclouded!